PREVIEWSworld's Featured This Week Comics & Graphic Novels for 10/3

Every week PREVIEWSworld calls attention to those books and graphic novels which stand out from all the rest. These titles from Premier Vendors and independent publishers should be at the top of your list, and can be found at your local comic shop on October 3.

Star Wars #55

Marvel Comics

(W) Kieron Gillen (A) Salvador Larroca (CA) David Marquez

"HOPE DIES" PART 6. If anyone is to survive this disaster, sacrifice is needed. Who's going to make it? If hope dies, what survives?

Item Code: AUG181061
Price: $3.99
MARVEL PREVIEWS Page #91
In Shops 10/3/2018

X-Men Black: Magneto #1

Marvel Comics

(W) Chris Claremont (A) Dalibor Talajic (CA) J. Scott Campbell

Magneto Is Back...and so is Chris Claremont! For years, Magneto has done everything he can to achieve his goals for mutant domination. But now Magneto has declared that enough is enough. So what revolutionary plan does Magneto have that will change the face of mutantkind? And will anyone be able to stop him? Will anyone want to? PLUS: Includes Part 1 of X-Men Black: Apocalypse the back-up story by Zac Thompson, Lonnie Nadler, and Geraldo Borge!

Item Code: AUG180905
Price: $4.99
MARVEL PREVIEWS Page 28
In Shops 10/3/2018

Batman #56 Foil

DC Comics

(W) Tom King (A/CA) Tony S. Daniel

The Dark Knight's looking to drop both the hammer and sickle on the KGBeast, whose rampage across Gotham City takes a toll on Nightwing when he's injured in the fray. Blaming himself for his ward's fate, Batman gets grimmer than usual-and vows to take the Russian assassin down like the Berlin Wall. Is even Gotham City ready for that much violence? The streets will run red like borscht if the Dark Knight gets his way against this Soviet scourge.

Item Code: AUG180501
Price: $3.99
DC PREVIEWS Page #22
In Shops 10/3/2018

Wonder Woman & Justice League Dark: The Witching Hour #1

DC Comics

(W) James TynionIV (A/CA) Jesus Merino

Just in time for Halloween, it's "The Witching Hour," a five-part weekly event that will rewrite the future of DC's magical heroes! Hecate, the witch-goddess of magic, always knew a day would come when the monsters she stole her magic from would return. Now she must activate the Witchmarked, humans within whom she secreted vast stores of power. And the most powerful of the Witchmarked? Wonder Woman!

Item Code: AUG180464
Price: $4.99
DC PREVIEWS Page #9
In Shops 10/3/2018

The Walking Dead #184

Image Comics/Skybound

(W) Robert Kirkman (A) Charlie Adlard & Various (CA) Charlie Adlard, Dave Stewart

Eugene tinkers... but to what end? Mature Readers.

Item Code: AUG180047
Price: $3.99
PREVIEWS Page #58
In Shops 10/3/2018

The Umbrella Academy: Hotel Oblivion #1

Dark Horse Comics

(W) Gerard Way (A) Gabriel Ba, Nick Filardi (CA) Gabriel Ba

Faced with an increasing number of lunatics with superpowers eager to face off with his own wunderkind brood, Sir Reginald Hargreeves developed the ultimate solution. Now, just a few years after Hargreeves's death, his Umbrella Academy is scattered. Number Five is a hired gun, Kraken is stalking big game, Rumor is dealing with the wreckage of her marriage, a rotund Spaceboy runs around the streets of Tokyo, Vanya continues her physical therapy after being shot in the head-and no one wants to even mention Seance until issue #2.

Item Code: AUG180314
Price: $3.99
PREVIEWS Page #100
In Shops 10/3/2018

Batman/The Maxx #1

IDW Publishing/DC Comics

(W) Sam Keith (A/CA) Sam Kieth

Batman must face the strangest and most bizarre adventure of his career, as he meets comics' strangest and most bizarre hero... The Maxx! IDW and DC Comics proudly present the most surreal, quirky, and wonderful crossover of all time! A devious new doctor at Arkham Asylum is conducting unconventional experiments into the human psyche, and he kicks off a chain reaction of disaster when he experiments on Arkham's newest patient, The Maxx! The city of Gotham is starting to merge with The Maxx's psychedelic mental landscape, known as the Outback, blurring the line between real and unreal. It's up to Batman to save not just Gotham, but all of reality, and he and The Maxx are going to have to travel through some of the darkest places imaginable-the twisted minds of Batman's greatest enemies!

Item Code: JUL180846
Price: $4.99
PREVIEWS Page #154
In Shops 10/3/2018

Battlestar Galactica Classic #0

D. E.

(W) John Jackson Miller (A) Daniel HDR (CA) Sean Chen

Timed for Battlestar Galactica's 40th anniversary year! Commander Adama and the remnants of humanity discover a second fugitive fleet, fleeing a different mortal enemy. Can the two armadas join forces, making common cause against the dreaded Cylons? And what would success mean for the quest for Earth?

Item Code: AUG181184
Price: $0.35
PREVIEWS Page #194
In Shops 10/3/2018

Sparrowhawk #1

BOOM! Studios

(W) Delilah Dawson (A) Matias Basla (CA) Miguel Mercado

Teen Victorian fairy fight club! As the illegitimate daughter of a Naval Captain, Artemesia has never fit in with her fatherfs family, nor the high class world to which they belong. However, when she is targeted by the Faerie Queen and pulled into another realm, she has no choice but to try and save the world that has always hated her.

Item Code: AUG181356
Price: $3.99
PREVIEWS Page #218
In Shops 10/3/2018

A Walk Through Hell #5

AfterShock Comics

(W) Garth Ennis (A) Goran Sudzuka (CA) Andy Clarke

Shaw finally comes clean, and now McGregor knows what's gotten them trapped in a world of constant nightmare. But with understanding comes determination, and the pair begin their attempt to climb back towards the light. The missing agent Goss, meanwhile, discovers a particular horror all his own-and suffers what may the worst fate of all.

Item Code: JUL181512
Price: $3.99
PREVIEWS Page #274
In Shops 10/3/2018

Archie #699

Archie Comic Publications

(W) Mark Waid, Ian Flynn (A) Various (CA) Marguerite Sauvage

Follow along as Archie reflects back on the past several years of storylines including: the much-talked about #LipstickIncident, the arrival of the Lodge family, the Riverdale Civil War, the machinations of the Blossom Twins, the near-tragedy of "Over the Edge" and more! This special issue sets the stage for next month's landmark 700th issue of Archie! Based on stories by Mark Waid and Ian Flynn and featuring art by an assortment of Archie talents.

Item Code: AUG181571
Price: $1.00
PREVIEWS Page #287
In Shops 10/3/2018

Wonder Woman: Earth One Volume Two HC

DC Comics

(W) Grant Morrison (A/CA) Yanick Paquette

For years, Diana of Paradise Island yearned to leave the only home she knew behind for adventures that laid beyond its shores. Now, after a fateful meeting with Air Force pilot Steve Trevor, the Amazon Warrior finds herself in Man's World. And she is ready for anything that it may throw at her. But is the world ready for Wonder Woman? An American government, fraught with dissension and conflicts foreign to Diana, has deemed her a danger to society. How will Wonder Woman carry out her mission of peace and love in a world that can't get out of its own way? That is, unless there are more insidious forces at play.

Item Code: JUL180591
Price: $24.99
DC PREVIEWS Page #1
In Shops 10/3/2018

The Wicked & The Divine Volume 7: Mothering Invention TP

Image Comics

(W) Kieron Gillen (A/CA) Jamie McKelvie, Matt Wilson

In the past: awful stuff. In the present: awful stuff. But, increasingly: answers. Collects The Wicked + The Divine #34-39.

Item Code: AUG180194
Price: $17.99
DC PREVIEWS Page #69
In Shops 10/3/2018

Likely Stories HC

Dark Horse Comics

(W) Neil Gaiman, Mark Buckingham (A/CA) Mark Buckingham

These dark and imaginative tales feature an odd and subtly linked world of bizarre venereal diseases, a creepy old woman who feasts on raw meat, a man obsessed with a skin model from a magazine, and a story within a story about ghosts.  Mature Readers.

Item Code: APR180018
Price: $17.99
PREVIEWS Page #46
In Shops 10/3/2018

My Hero Academia Volume 15 GN

Viz Media

(W/A/CA) Kouhei Horikoshi

A new and sinister enemy appears in the form of Chisaki Kai, the young leader of the Hassaikai yakuza gang. Looking to fill the power vacuum left by All For One, Chisaki makes contact with the League of Villains to gain possible support. When a chance run-in with a scared little girl brings Midoriya and his mentor Mirio face-to-face with Chisaki.

Item Code: AUG182426
Price: $9.99
PREVIEWS Page #460
In Shops 10/3/2018

Halloween ComicFest Polypacks

Enjoy Halloween this year by giving out the ultimate alternative to candy: comic books!

Item Codes:

JUL180053           HCF 2018 VAMPLETS UNDEAD PET SOCIETY POLYPACK
JUL180054           HCF 2018 SPOOKHOUSE SAMPLER MINI COMIC POLYPACK
JUL180055           HCF 2018 ROCKY & BULLWINKLE ADVENTURES POLYPACK
JUL180056           HCF 2018 ARCHIES MADHOUSE MAYHEM POLYPACK
JUL180057           HCF 2018 OVER THE GARDEN WALL POLYPACK
JUL180058           HCF 2018 NANCY DREW MINI COMIC POLYPACK
JUL180059           HCF 2018 JOHNNY BOO & THE SPOOKY TREE POLYPACK
JUL180060           HCF 2018 TMNT RISE OF THE TMNT POLYPACK
JUL180061           HCF 2018 GHOST FRIENDS FOREVER MINI COMIC POLYPACK
JUL180062           HCF 2018 HOLLOW FIELDS SAMPLER POLYPACK
JUL180063           HCF 2018 SPLATOON MINI COMIC POLYPACK
JUL180064           HCF 2018 ZO ZO ZOMBIE MINI COMIC POLYPACK

Price: $4.99 Ea.
PREVIEWS Page #34
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DC Designer Series Red Hood By Kenneth Rocafort Statue

DC Comics

Inspired by his amazing work during his run as artist on Red Hood And The Outlaws, Kenneth Rocafort's art style is perfectly represented in this 12" Red Hood statue, which features a super-dynamic pose of Red Hood leaping into the air with both guns drawn.

Item Code: MAR180387
Price: $150.00
PREVIEWS Page #149
In Shops 10/3/2018

Game Of Thrones Cersei Westeros Map Puzzle

Dark Horse Comics

Fans can now piece together their own map of the great land of Westeros with this deluxe 1,000 piece puzzle. The map imagery is taken straight from HBO's Game of Thrones, season 7, to match the map Cersei Lannister has painted in a courtyard of King's Landing. The complete puzzle measures 20" by 27" and comes in a high quality full color box.

Item Code: APR180093
Price: $19.99
PREVIEWS Page #75
In Shops 10/3/2018

The Dark Knight: Harvey Dent MAFEX Figure

Medicom Toy Corporation

From Medicom. Harvey Dent from The Dark Knight trilogy joins the MAFEX lineup from Medicom!  He stands 6 1/2" tall and is fully posable; he comes with interchangeable hands and two interchangeable faces, an interchangeable messed-up jacket part, a pistol, an in-scale "I Believe in Harvey Dent" button (not wearable by normal human beings, sadly), and his lucky coin.  Make room for him in your rogues' gallery today!

Item Code: JUL178514
Price: $110.99
PREVIEWS Page #546
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